PowerShell 7 comes with a new ForEach-Object that supports parallel execution:
1..100 | ForEach-Object -ThrottleLimit 20 -Parallel { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 $_ }
If you use Windows PowerShell, you can use the same parallelization techniques. For example, download and install this free module:
Install-Module -Name PSParallel -Scope CurrentUser -Force
It comes with a single command: Invoke-Parallel. You would use it like this:
1..100 | Invoke-Parallel -ThrottleLimit 20 -Scrip-tBlock { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 $_ }
Since Invoke-Parallel uses the same techniques as PowerShell 7, the same limitations apply: each thread is executed in its own thread and has no access to local variables. In an upcoming tip, we’ll look at some interesting use cases.
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